Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have high-school students wholly ignorant of art history until after they had learned to paint and write and build. ... I find few things more depressing than the correct appraisements [of works of art] by juvenile critics accompanied usually with condescensions toward Sargent and Saint-Gaudens. Little as I admire Sargent I am ready to defend him . . . against all comers under twelve years...
Sirs: I would like to correct a statement [in TIME LETTERS...
...Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...
...snakes and toads. A year later, he noticed some dried toads mislabeled in the Harvard Museum and told the director about it. But the director only thought him presumptuous and Professor Barbour had to wait until 18 years later, when he himself became director of the museum, to correct the labels...
...statement rare for a Southern governor: "The crimes are revolting, but a part of the blame . . . arises from the neglect of the State and society to provide a better environment. . . . Our public schools, equipped with capable teachers . . . [and] an effective compulsory-attendance law, would do much to correct delinquency among all races." Rarer still, in all North Carolina there was no outcry...